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by petsfed 3y ago
I have no idea, except that it blocks video output, and comes up with a prompt to log in to whatever service via the TV. I can cast just fine from e.g. a webpage or a podcast app. But Netflix or Max or Prime? Forget it.
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If your outcome is defined on a continuum, then the expectation value is the sum of product of (probability of some event times the outcome value of that event). Fair coin flips have 50/50 odds. If we say that you get $100 if it comes
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by petsfed 3y ago
"don't bother with the cover up" doesn't contribute to the probabilistic model. If I flip a coin, it can't come up "I didn't flip the coin".
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by petsfed 3y ago
The only thing that works well on their smart TV hub features is the ability to block signal from my current-gen Chromecast. Coordinated asshole design.
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by petsfed 3y ago
But they're not necessarily equivalent. If option a (0% damage) is equiprobable with option b (100% damage), then yeah, the expectation value is 50% damage. But if option b is 4 times more likely than option a, then the expectation val
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by petsfed 3y ago
Not any more, but when I was learning to climb, ca 2000, I was living in the Boulder area, and the Smear loomed pretty large in the legendarium I came up in.
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by petsfed 3y ago
Every time I whack a dinner-place sized piece of ice off, or absolutely bury my picks in the ice because any thing less feels dangerously insecure, I think about stuff like what's in that photo. I have no idea how I could ever climb so
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by petsfed 3y ago
Well, people are still buying them, otherwise I'd be out of job. My experience with the Tecan and Hamilton machines that I got to interact with was that the setup seemed tedious as hell, but once it was off and running, it would rapidl
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by petsfed 3y ago
We already do this with automated e.g. drug testing. I've worked with a couple different machines (and worked on the development of another) that existed specifically to rapidly do certain chemical and biological tests, to parse throug
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by petsfed 3y ago
Let us rephrase then: If a person cannot cover all of their non-discretionary expenses, plus a little left over, working 40 hours at a given wage, that wage is too low. Period. If the cheapest housing in your area requires you to work more
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by petsfed 3y ago
The point is there are two possible responses to seeing the surcharge: "just raise your prices" and "I can't believe I have to pay more for this shit service! At least we know its not the owner's fault the prices
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by petsfed 3y ago
When I worked service sector jobs, I was called stupid to my face. I was threatened with violence. People tried to get me fired for making them wait while I tried to help them. I got cussed out how over-priced printers were for how long the
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by petsfed 3y ago
I think there is an element of shitty consumer behavior here. Its axiomatic: people want to pay as little as possible. But there's a certain kind of consumer, who goes out of their way to flaunt that while they could pay more, they&#
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by petsfed 3y ago
Emotional regulation in the form of self-soothing happens pretty quickly. Like 3-9 months, commonly. I think more importantly, the GP was using the most negative possible interpretation of what, to me, sounds like a pretty healthy and self-
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by petsfed 3y ago
There's merit to both perspectives. I mean, yes, its important to recognize where your limits are so that when you feel you are approaching them, you take the moment to walk away. But as written, I understood this to be "if I have
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by petsfed 3y ago
I mean, if you have the firmware binary and the relevant arguments for the ISP (that is, In-System-Programmer), that's sufficient to make some PCBs do their jobs. Maybe not these , but you don't need source code as such to progra
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I'd argue that "successful" is a poor measure of how ethical a company is. AirBnb has managed to shake off some pretty bad ethical issues. Facebook was credibly implicated in a genocide, and Instagram in particular (and socia
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by petsfed 3y ago
You see the same sort of resistance re: societies that recently emerged from more than a generation of government oppression. People have said with a straight face "why hasn't Haiti improved its lot? Its been more than 10 years si
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by petsfed 3y ago
One of the funniest interactions I had with my eldest daughter was the day we baked cookies together, when she not yet 2. She was verbalizing a lot, but also signing "milk" and "more" quite a bit. And when she bit into h
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by petsfed 3y ago
Tread carefully: the sign for poop looks close enough to a crude gesture (cruder than just shouting "poop" at a playground, as it turns out) that an ignorant bystander might take it significantly wrongly.
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by petsfed 3y ago
That's pretty hard to argue with, although (according to google translate, my french is a bit rusty), the performance was already banned from kids. Children weren't supposed to be there. So maybe that's less a question of &qu
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by petsfed 3y ago
I mean, you pick the subject, there's a hot-button issue. Could be evolution in the science side of things, the legacy of slavery or colonization in the history side of things. Math is generally pretty safe, although I do see a steady
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One that I think about a lot is the "ok" symbol, when its not being held up as a separate symbol (that is, not held up like the peace sign or a middle finger). If you'd normally put the palms of your hands on your knees while
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It's not difficult to show that a given statement was meant innocently, but it does require some effort. To whit, Norse pagan iconography is a very common in white supremacist imagery. So while I find the Norse pagan imagery interestin
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This better explains the flaws in Plato's philosophy after the Allegory of the Cave than I've ever seen.
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I'm going to call out this fallacy every time I see it. Maybe call it the dosage fallacy? Yes, bullying has always been a problem. Yes, society has always been force-feeding kids dangerously unattainable body images. The problem is not
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The newly formed Israel, that was formed because of constant (arguably terrorist) attacks on the British army, alongside actions against indigenous Palestinian Arabs (actions that could justly be called pogroms themselves), by Jewish separa
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Menachem Begin, for one.
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I once had a very simple I2C operation performed on an Orange Pi running project nerves. I had to add a try-again loop to the I2C operation, because the underlying OS kept disrupting the I2C timing. I2C is generally run between 100-400 KHz,
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That's where I've landed for the most part. Last real gasp for dev-board-style SBCs, for me, is when I'm severely space constrained, but can afford to locate a USB hub somewhere else. Then its just simple serial comms with a

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